Outlast Brings Back Survival Horror

Today's Halloween, so I guess that means it's time to feel frightened by watching some scary game trailers. Take a look at Outlast, the new survival-horror game that hopes to reinvent the genre. If there was ever a moment where you don't want to be caught hiding under the bed, this is it.

"The footage is in-engine (Unreal 3) and real-time, coming from a tech demo the studio has developed internally," Red Barrels Games says. "The final game will resemble this,"

Very interesting. Certainly seems like it could be quite scary, even if this is basically just the concept video (sounds like it). Hopefully it's not just that creature chasing you, though, because that might lose it's affect after a while--gotta have some downtime to build tension, and perhaps other things to fear.

The monster, or enemy, design doesn't seem all that scary (hoping, surely, that there's more than just this), but the mood and atmosphere looks very "Condemned," which is always a good thing. Condemned 1 and 2 were easily the scariest games of this generation, even though they both released towards the start of this generation.